Use hill in a sentence
Sentences ending with hill
- Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
- Breakfast time approached while I mused these musings and called these ancient happenings back to mind; so I got me back into the present and went down the hill. [5]
- She had powers which had ever been the admiration of Guidon Hill. [11]
- Bundles of candles were procured, and straightway there was a general scamper up the hill. [5]
- Suddenly he dropped Virginia's hand and ran westward down the hill. [9]
- In less than two months that indomitable leader was lying dead beside Wilson's Creek, among the oaks on Bloody Hill. [9]
- All those old trees on the side of a hill? [9]
- It had early transpired that Rosannah, poor suffering orphan, had neither returned to her grandmother in Portland, Oregon, nor sent any word to her save a duplicate of the woeful note she had left in the mansion on Telegraph Hill. [5]
- I walked home, too--five miles--up hill. [5]
- She has gone to the top of the hill. [11]
Short sentences using hill
- He never left Jackass Hill. [5]
- It was called Fort Hill. [4]
- Gold Hill, January 15, 1870. [5]
- Hill. [5]
Sentences containing hill two or more times
- Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
- So while my uncle was buying Jarvis's hill for three million two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, the other party was buying Bledso's hill for a shade over three million. [5]
- As soon as the Uhlans descended the hill, the hussars were ordered up the hill to support the battery. [2]
- She went up the hill, and across to old Louisburg Square, and up the hill again. [9]
- The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
- All hands were on deck, all the afternoon, with books and maps and glasses, trying to determine which "narrow rocky ridge" was the Areopagus, which sloping hill the Pnyx, which elevation the Museum Hill, and so on. [5]
- Sometimes we opened on a broad water plain bounded by the Watchabaktchkt hills, and again we looked over hill after hill receding into the soft and hazy blue of the land beyond the great mass of the Bras d'Or. [4]
- We spurred up hill after hill, and usually began to stretch our necks minutes before we got to the top--but disappointment always followed:--more stupid hills beyond--more unsightly landscape--no Holy City. [5]
- Church members were gazing with emotion upon a hill which they said was the one St. Paul preached from, and another faction claimed that that hill was Hymettus, and another that it was Pentelicon! [5]
- This was a custom set in memory of the old days when fires flashed intelligence, after a fixed code, across the great rivers and lakes, and from hill to hill. [11]
More example sentences with the word hill in them
- At last the youth encased his telescope, and turned to descend the hill to the town. [11]
- Turning to the young reporter, Mr. Hill, who had finished his writing, he said: "Bob, a little air will do you good. [9]
- But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
- Prince Eugene of Wurttemberg fired from a hill over the French crowds that were running past, and demanded reinforcements which did not arrive. [2]
- No prominent hill would stick to its shape long enough for me to make up my mind what its form really was, but it was as dissolving and changeful as if it had been a mountain of butter in the hottest corner of the tropics. [5]
- As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
- But with the words her thoughts flew to the hill country. [9]
- Pierre went on with the soldiers, quite forgetting that his inn was at the bottom of the hill and that he had already passed it. [2]
- And it's back with the ring of the chain and the spur, And it's back with the sun on the hill and the moor, And it's back is the thought sets my pulses astir,-- But I'll never go back to Farcalladen more! [11]
- The schoolhouse stood with pines about Upon the hill, and ever A creek, where hid the speckled trout, Ran past it to the river. [11]
- The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages. [4]
- Put a fine wire-screen over each hill, which will keep out the bugs and admit the rain. [4]
- But the shepherd will return from behind the hill, and the hawks will flee away. [11]
- The horses you will find at Tete Blanche Hill, if we get there. [11]
- Then, after a whispered word to the accompanist she began singing Gounod's memorable song, "There is a Green Hill Far Away. [11]
- In a little while, if they were not surprised, they would complete a movement, take a hill, turn the flank of the foe, and, if designed supports came up, have the Boers at a deadly disadvantage. [11]
- The hut in which he lived with his wife on another hill, ten miles from Shaknon, had but two rooms, and their little farm and the garden gave them only enough to live--no more. [11]
- Oh, that was what was so awful in the old life over there at Heddington,"--she pointed beyond the hill, "we didn't know what was good and what was bad. [11]
- Because the coopers were starting up the hill to inquire. [5]
- Down hill we went together, the fall showing that I must have wandered to high ground. [4]
- Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
- No sooner have we set forward over the brow of a hill than it grows lighter on the sea horizon in the southwest, the ruins on the peak become visible, Capri is in full sunlight. [4]
- In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill-cities--for Baton Rouge, yet to come, is not on a hill, but only on high ground. [5]
- At the Hill we have a force of 8000, under General Sherman, and about an equal force of rebels is a very short distance south, under General Buckner. [7]
- On the train we found several Sydney friends; among them a Judge who was going out on circuit, and was going to hold court at Broken Hill, where the celebrated silver mine is. [5]
- Having forced his way out of the crowd of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing and Frenchmen running toward it. [2]
- In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
- The great hills waved into each other like a vast violet sea, and, in turn, the tiny earth-waves on each separate hill swelled into the larger harmony. [11]
- Although the occurrence was unusual,--it might almost be said epoch-making,--Jethro did not speak of it until they had reached the sparkling heights of Thousand Acre Hill the next morning. [9]
- And then there was the journey, the heat in the city, the grateful sight of the Deerfield, the splendid morning, the old barn, the watering-trough, the view from the hill everything just as it used to be. [4]
- Before the night was over everybody at Guidon Hill, save Hilton and Ida, knew what gift would come from Macavoy to the wedded pair. [11]
- To the right was Mars Hill, where the Areopagus sat in ancient times and where St. Paul defined his position, and below was the market-place where he "disputed daily" with the gossip-loving Athenians. [5]
- Finally an assessment was levied to run a tunnel two hundred and fifty feet on the Daley, and Townsend went up on the hill to look into matters. [5]
- As Sheriff Cummings was in Gold Hill that afternoon, and as I desired to converse with him about the previous assault, I invited him to my office, and he came. [5]
- Why, that dervish was hunting in that little hill for the treasures of the earth, and didn't know he was walking over the real ones for a thousand miles. [5]
- If Mr. Hill was going to speak at all, he was going to straddle. [9]
- When the sun was falling below Little Red Hill, Macavoy came to Wonta's tent. [11]
- The fog that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were descending. [2]
- A church procession was coming up the hill from Borodino. [2]
- To the left was a high rose-coloured hill, solemn and mysterious; to the right--afar off-- a forest of gum-trees, pink and purple against the horizon. [11]
- The Minister of War has also in his charge some venerable swivels on Punch-Bowl Hill wherewith royal salutes are fired when foreign vessels of war enter the port. [5]
- Perhaps you sometimes wander in through the iron gates of the Copp's Hill burial-ground. [6]
- Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
- A world-famed Stradivarius Violin, for which Mr. Hill, of Bond Street, gave L 1000, etc., etc. [6]
- Jethro thought the view from Thousand Acre Hill, especially in September, to be one of the sublimest efforts of the Creator. [9]
- It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
- The danger attracted us, but we promptly chose the hill road on account of the views, for we were weary of the limited valley prospects. [4]
- Others he called upon to lie in the hot spring at the foot of the hill for varying periods, before the laying on of hands, and these also, crippled, or rigid with troubles' of the bone, announced that they were healed. [11]
- In Soolsby's hut upon the hill David sat talking to the old chair-maker. [11]
- It was impressed upon King that he must upon no account omit a visit to Rum Hill, from the summit of which is had a noble prospect, including the Adirondack Mountains. [4]
- Soon we came upon a row of open graves, cut in the solid rock--(for a while one of them served Socrates for a prison)--we passed around the shoulder of the hill, and the citadel, in all its ruined magnificence, burst upon us! [5]
- Behind it slanted up, in giant steps, a forest-clad hill of a thousand feet, and in front of it the stream was dammed and lined with cane. [9]
- You must hill up your corn. [4]
- When Stephen caught up with him in the little country street, he was talking earnestly to Mr. Hill, the young reporter of the Press and Tribune. [9]
- When having limbered up the only two cannon that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill (one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode up to Tushin. [2]
- A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there. [9]
- If you go up the hill instead of down, you come to an arrangement of squares, palaces, and gardens as trim and fashionable as you will find in Europe. [6]
- As we climbed up and stepped out on this eminence, the Gold Hill lights dropped out of sight at our backs, and the night closed down gloomy and dismal. [5]
- The villains came up and searched a bundle Dr. Birch had in his hand, and scowled upon him when they found it had nothing in it but some holy rocks from Mars Hill, and these were not contraband. [5]
- He shook it until she had driven away beyond the hill and was lost to sight, and still stood there at the window looking out. [11]
- Nothing promising occurred, until one night at the Murray Hill Hotel he was introduced by Dr. Clarence C. Rice to Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil group of financiers. [5]
- This was in truth a painful effort, for the sand crumbled away again and again under his feet, slipping down hill and carrying him with it, thus compelling him to find a new hold with hand and foot. [10]
- After all the trouble, we could be certain of only one thing--the square-topped hill was the Acropolis, and the grand ruin that crowned it was the Parthenon, whose picture we knew in infancy in the school books. [5]
- The whole vast trade-profit of Broken Hill fell into Adelaide's hands, irrevocably. [5]
- The conspicuous object toward which we traveled all the morning was a shapely conical hill at the beginning of the Gap. [4]
- Presently, from the top of the hill, they looked down upon the long line of little homes lying along the banks of the river like peaceful watchmen in a pleasant land, with corn and wine and oil at hand. [11]
- In that house, too, General Warren probably passed the night before the Bunker Hill battle, and over its threshold must the stately figure of Washington have often cast its shadow. [6]
- When I become too lazy to hill my corn, I, too, shall go into politics. [4]
- As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. [5]
- I suppose somebody told him at the top of the hill that there was nothing to arbitrate, and to get out and go about his business, and that was the reason he marched down after he had marched up with all that ceremony. [8]
- It was interesting to watch the groups under the locusts, to see the management of the ferry, the mounting and dismounting of the riding-parties, and to study the colors on the steep hill opposite, halfway up which was a neat cottage and flower-garden. [4]
- Then he said to the men: "So you have taken a contract to run a tunnel into this hill two hundred and fifty feet to strike this ledge? [5]
- We sweep away to the left round the base of the hill, over a difficult and stony path. [4]
- By bearing away to the left into another path, and making a detour, she could reach the Meeting-house through a narrow lane leading past a now disused mill and a small, strong stream flowing from the hill above. [11]
- I have come to the hill Difficulty, Sir, and am fighting my way up.--His speech was laborious and interrupted. [6]
- I am going to talk in Carson, Gold Hill, Silver City, Dayton, Washoe, San Francisco again, and again here if I have time to re-hash the lecture. [5]
- They were content to reach ground again without broken necks, and take the townward track over the hill. [5]
- I preferred him to my dog, whom I had, with much patience, taught to go up a long hill alone and surround the cows, and drive them home from the remote pasture. [4]
- The difficulty is to make the toad stay and watch the hill. [4]
- Sometimes he ventured to hope that he had made a mistake in estimating the direction which the vein should naturally take after crossing the valley and entering the hill. [5]
- If I were to go to Damascus again, I would camp on Mahomet's hill about a week, and then go away. [5]
- It was difficult to elude their attention; yet close by Ephraim's couch, which his uncle, for greater comfort, had helped him make on the side of a gently sloping hill, a narrow ravine ran down to the valley. [10]
- The Pequots used to come swarming up the hill, with hideous war-whoops, attacking the fort on all sides with great noise and a shower of balls. [4]
- He was seen to carry the load of old Madame Degardy up the hill, and place it at her own door. [11]
- It is time to be rural, to adore the country, to speak about the dew on the upland pasture, and the exquisite view from Sunset Hill. [4]
- Presently we came to a ruinous old town on a hill, the same being the ancient Jezreel. [5]
- By-and-by they came to a marvelous cave in the Hill of Pion and entered into it and feasted, and presently they hurried on again. [5]
- Them don't amount to a hill of beans in politics. [9]
- But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
- At that very time, at ten in the morning of the second of September, Napoleon was standing among his troops on the Poklonny Hill looking at the panorama spread out before him. [2]
- So I passed through the vacant streets, still seeing the town as it was, and not as it is, and recognizing and metaphorically shaking hands with a hundred familiar objects which no longer exist; and finally climbed Holiday's Hill to get a comprehensive view. [5]
- Therefore we traveled through the long tunnel which enters the hill above the Ophir office, and then by means of a series of long ladders, climbed away down from the first to the fourth gallery. [5]
- A carriage-road wound through the grounds and up the hill. [5]
- A railway "cut" through a hill would be as comely if it had the angry river tumbling and foaming through its bottom. [5]
- How such a thought would have insulted him the night we lay in our cabin planning European trips and brown stone houses on Russian Hill! [5]
- A half-hour after this Pierre left Laforce on the crest of the hill above the Fort, and did not turn to go down till he had seen the other pass within the house with the broken shutter. [11]
- Some minutes before this Mr. Burley rushed from the mansion on Telegraph Hill without meeting or taking formal leave of anybody. [5]
- Don't go from this little hill. [13]
- Now have the thing set up and printed and posted, right off; that is, give the order; then, if you've got a couple of bicycles handy at the foot of the hill, ho for Merlin's Cave! [5]
- Charley nodded, and they left the office together and moved away under a long avenue of maples to where, in the shade of a high hill, was the house of the uncle of Kathleen Wantage, with whom she and her brother Billy lived. [11]
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